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Originally Posted by August
Quit saying that! Telling people that you don't expect to get your money back is the surest way of ensuring that you won't.
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It's just realism.
The choice is to massively tax our kids since fewer of them will have to pay off the ponzi scheme for more of us, or take some modest steps to make SS what it was supposed to be in the first place—a safety net for the poor who were far too old and infirm to work. Note that when passed, people lived far shorter lives, and only those who saved themselves could "retire." Everyone else worked til they could not any more. Do you think John Adams stopped managing his farm to "retire?" Washington? Anyone else? No, they worked til they couldn't, or died. That is the norm, "retirement" as some sort of right is absurd.